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Progress Report 4 Membership Form Name: Address: Email: Membership Type: Voting Member*** - $10 Generous Member - $20 Friend of the Ditmars - $30 Protector of Kittens - $40 All Round Good Bloke/Blokess - $50 Absolute Fucking Legend - $100 Corporate Member – open to offers Cash preferred, cheque or PayPal possible. Australian Guest ofAustralian Honour – Helen Merrick International Guest of Watts Honour – Peter Guest ofFan Blake Honour – Jacob *** A Voting member is eligible to vote in the Ditmars and at the Business Meeting. You don’t get anything else - no badge, no ribbon, nothing. Information on this form will be used by the Standing Committee of the Business Meeting - September SF3rd Convention -National 5th 2010 Australian of the National Australian Science Fiction th Convention or its sub-committees to verify 49 eligibility for Ditmar voting. Contact details provided may also be used to inform you of III DUDCON activities relating to the convention. All correspondence should be directed to Paul Ewins, either at dudcon@optusnet.com.au or sent to PO Box 1126, North Mitcham, Vic 3132 III Progress Report 4 Ditmars Best Fan Writer * Tansy Rayner Roberts, for body of work The Ditmar Nominees have been announced * Chuck McKenzie, for work in Horrorscope and voting has commenced. and will remain * Robert Hood, for Undead Backbrain (roberthood.net/blog) * Tehani Wessely, for body of work open until one minute before midnight Perth * Bruce Gillespie, for work in Steam Engine Time time on Wednesday, 1st of September, 2010 (ie. 11.59pm, GMT+8). You can find a voting form Best Fan Artist * Dave Schembri, for work in Midnight Echo at http://ditmars.sf.org.au/2010/2010_Ditmar_ * Kathleen Jennings, for body of work Ballot.pdf * Dick Jenssen, for body of work Congratulations to the following nominees: Best Fan Publication in Any Medium * Interstellar Ramjet Scoop , edited by Bill Wright Best Novel * A Writer Goes on a Journey (awritergoesonajourney.com), edited * Leviathan, Scott Westerfeld (Penguin) by Nyssa Pascoe et al * Liar, Justine Larbalestier (Bloomsbury) * ASif! (asif.dreamhosters.com), edited by Alisa Krasnostein, Gene * World Shaker, Richard Harland (Allen & Unwin) Melzack et al * Slights, Kaaron Warren (Angry Robot Books) * Australian Science Fiction Bullsheet (bullsheet.sf.org.au), edited by * Life Through Cellophane, Gillian Polack (Eneit Press) Edwina Harvey and Ted Scribner Best Novella or Novelette * Steam Engine Time , edited by Bruce Gillespie and Janine Stinson * “Siren Beat”, Tansy Rayner Roberts (Twelfth Planet Press) Best Achievement * “Black Water”, David Conyers (Jupiter Magazine) * Alisa Krasnostein, Liz Grzyb, Tehani Wessely, Cat Sparks and * “After the World: Gravesend”, Jason Fischer (Black House Kate Williams, for the New Ceres Nights booklaunch Comics) * H. Gibbens, for the Gamers’ Quest CGI-animated book trailer * “Horn”, Peter M. Ball (Twelfth Planet Press) * Ruth Jenkins and Cathy Jenkins-Rutherford, for the children’s * “Wives”, Paul Haines (X6/Couer de Lion) program at Conjecture * Amanda Rainey, for the cover design of Siren Beat/Roadkill Best Short Story (Twelfth Planet Press) * “The Piece of Ice in Ms Windermere’s Heart”, Angela Slatter (New Ceres Nights, Twelfth Planet Press) * Gillian Polack et al, for the Southern Gothic banquet at Conflux * “Six Suicides”, Deborah Biancotti (A Book of Endings, Twelfth Planet Press) Best New Talent * “Black Peter”, Marty Young (Festive Fear, Tasmaniac * Pete Kempshall Publications) * Kathleen Jennings * “Seventeen”, Cat Sparks (Masques, CSFG) * Thoraiya Dyer * “Tontine Mary”, Kaaron Warren (New Ceres Nights, Twelfth * Jason Fischer Planet Press) * Simon Petrie * “Prosperine When it Sizzles”, Tansy Rayner Roberts (New Ceres * Christopher Green Nights, Twelfth Planet Press) * Peter M. Ball Best Collected Work William Atheling Jr Award for Criticism or Review * The New Space Opera 2, edited by Jonathan Strahan and Gardner * Chuck McKenzie, for “The Dead Walk! … Into a Bookstore Near Dozois You” (Eye of Fire #1, Brimstone Press) (HarperCollins) * Ian Mond, for reviews on his blog (mondyboy.livejournal.com) * New Ceres Nights, edited by Alisa Krasnostein and Tehani * Grant Watson, for reviews and articles for Eiga: Asian Cinema Wessely (www.eigaasiancinema.com) (Twelfth Planet Press) * Helen Merrick, for The Secret Feminist Cabal: a cultural history * Slice Of Life, Paul Haines, edited by Geoffrey Maloney (The of science fiction feminisms (Aqueduct Press) Mayne Press) * A Book of Endings, edited by Deborah Biancotti, Alisa Best Fannish Cat Krasnostein and Ben Payne (Twelfth Planet Press) Don’t forget to nominate in our own special- * Eclipse Three, edited by Jonathan Strahan (Night Shade Books) award-of-the-convention, Best Fannish Cat. You Best Artwork must be a member of Dudcon III to nominate * Cover art, New Ceres Nights (Twelfth Planet Press), Dion Hamill * Cover art, The Whale’s Tale (Peggy Bright Books), Eleanor Clarke and vote but your nominee does not need to be * Cover art and illustrations, Shards: Short Sharp Tales a member. All the rules are to be found at: (BrimstonePress), Andrew J. McKiernan http://members.optuszoo.com.au/~dudcon/ * Cover art, Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #42, Lewis Morley special_award.html. Email your nominations to * Cover art, “Horn” (Twelfth Planet Press), Dion Hamill dudcon@optsunet.com.au or mail to PO Box * Cover art, Masques (CSFG), Mik Bennett 1126, Mitcham Nth, Vic 3132. Nominations close at 23:59 EST on Friday 13th August 2010..
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